Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
http://www.plasmontech.com/downloads/pdf/mke7503_scsi.pdf: Reference Speed Field - encoded information indicating the recommended write speed for the media. Valid only for CD-RW media. It would appear to drop in the middle of the CD's high and low speed. CD-RWs I just bought have a low speed

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > These are _real_ cheap generic CDR's from OfficeMax, $11 for a 50 > spindle. I can always write successfully to 'em a 8x (max for my > burner). I suspect 'Indicated writing power: 5' (below) doesn't refer > to max writing speed as (IRRC)

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-06 Thread Charlie
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:20 am, Miark wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 > > Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must > > be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower > > speed and a lo

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday November 6 2002 10:20 am, Miark wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 > > Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It > > must be the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept > > a lower speed and a low

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-06 Thread Miark
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:02:37 -0700 Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The CD-R that you used is also probably a high speed media type. It must be > the difference in the recording substrate that won't accept a lower speed and > a lower intensity laser for a CD-RW. I've never had that problem s

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-06 Thread Charlie
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:53 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Dear Charlie, > > Thought I would let you know that the problem is solved!!! Nothing very > technical simply the CD-RW in the writer did not function. It was a > Memorex High speed 8X 12X, nor would it work with WinXP/Nero. Other > C

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-06 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Dear Charlie, Thought I would let you know that the problem is solved!!! Nothing very technical simply the CD-RW in the writer did not function. It was a Memorex High speed 8X 12X, nor would it work with WinXP/Nero. Other CD-Rs work well. It appears that a 4X speed writer will not work on a higher

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-03 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Hello Charlie, I have listed my mtab & fstab files below and think they look ok. Also tryed changing to speeds 1 2 3.or 4 and used the 'v' but still get the report:- cdrecord : Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. You were certainly right about re-booting and getting the cdrecord

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-02 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 02 November 2002 08:49 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Dear Charlie, Hello Malcolm; (interspersed) > > It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I > have copied the results as follows:- > > [root@localhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject > /home/m

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-02 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Dear Charlie, It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I have copied the results as follows:- [root@localhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject /home/malcolm/mtdir-25oct02.raw Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schillin

Re: Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-31 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:45 am, Jim Dawson wrote: > On a related note, does anyone know if DVD+R/+RW is supported under Linux? > The versions of cdrecord that I have used support DVD-R/-RW but not +R/+RW. > > Also, does DVD+RW packet writing mode (mount the DVD as a volume and write > to it l

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-31 Thread Charlie
Interspersed. On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:03 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Hi Charlie, Howdy! :-) > > Your material was very useful and indicates a divergence in the > 'cdrecord' debug notices, > > This was apparent in:- > > ATIP info from disc > Indicated writing power 5 (mine 3) > Reference sp

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 4:08 am, you wrote: > I would suggest that you turn off html format in your posts and stop > posting with 24 point type. If there are special circumstances (poor > eyesight or something) please accept my apologies for the rant. - > Richard L. Babcock, Owner > Tower Train

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-28 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Hi Charlie of Edmonton Canada, Thank you very much for your kind reply. I re-installed Mandrake 9.0 and at least this time the CDR was auto-detected with 'cdrecord -scandisk' as on 0,3,0. However it still will not work, due to the following error messages from both X-CD-Roast and the cdrecord co

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-28 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Dennis, Thank you very much for your kind reply. I reinstalled Mandrake 9.0 and at least this time the CDR was auto-detected with 'cdrecord -scandisk' as on 0,3,0. However it still will not work, due to the following error messages from both X-CD-Roast and the cdrecord command line as follows:-

RE: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You!www.towertraining.net -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm CandlishSent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:10 PMTo: Mandrake ListSubject: [newbie] CD-Writing. Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-25 Thread Charlie
On Friday 25 October 2002 12:29 pm, Spencer wrote: > On October 25, 2002 11:09 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > > Sirs, > > > > I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. > > > > It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not > > work, my scsi scanne

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-25 Thread Spencer
On October 25, 2002 11:09 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Sirs, > > I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. > > It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not > work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. > > Mandrake Control Center seems of

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 25 October 2002 01:09 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Sirs, > > I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. > > It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not > work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. > > Mandrake Control Center se

[newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-25 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Sirs, I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via its own scan. Anyone el

[newbie] CD-Writing problems...again

2001-10-27 Thread Derek Jennings
It's a subject that keeps coming up, but I've been unable to get it to work by referencing previous answers. MY CDWriter on /dev/hdd which was autodetected and worked perfectly under 8.0 will not work under 8.1 CDRecord gives me this response :- [root@Derek derek]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1

Re: [newbie] cd writing howto

2001-10-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 01 Oct 2001 16:59:49 -0400, Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wasn't there a Mandrake specific cd-writing howto somewhere? > > -Paul Rodríguez Try http://www.mandrakeuser.org. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Also we should remember that unfortunately free software is not widely used becau

Re: [newbie] cd writing howto

2001-10-01 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Monday 01 October 2001 16:59, you wrote: > Wasn't there a Mandrake specific cd-writing howto somewhere? > > -Paul Rodr?guez > >Paul, The best HOWTO I found (that got me up and running quickly with my LITE-ON 16x10x40) was: "CD-Writing with an ATAPI CDR Mini-HOWTO" (Issue 57 of Linux Gazette)

[newbie] cd writing howto

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Rodríguez
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